diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-candidate-rows.ts b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-candidate-rows.ts
index 3364253c08b..dc98d668156 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-candidate-rows.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-candidate-rows.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,20 @@ import type { SessionSearchCandidateRow } from './session-search-catalog-candida
 import { boundedSessionSearchPage } from './session-search-catalog-pages'
 import { sessionSearchStoredCandidate } from './session-search-candidate-facts'
 
+export function consumeSessionSearchCandidatePage(
+  db: SyncDatabase,
+  receipts: { key: string; revision: number }[]
+): number {
+  if (!receipts.length) {
+    return 0
+  }
+  const result = db
+    .prepare(`UPDATE temp.search_candidates SET changed=0
+      WHERE changed=1 AND (key,revision) IN (SELECT json_extract(value,'$[0]'),json_extract(value,'$[1]') FROM json_each(?))`)
+    .run(JSON.stringify(receipts.map((row) => [row.key, row.revision])))
+  return Number(result.changes)
+}
+
 export function readSessionSearchCandidateRows(
   db: SyncDatabase,
   where: string,
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-catalog-candidates.ts b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-catalog-candidates.ts
index 64f67a382e5..86f1d1abf02 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-catalog-candidates.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-catalog-candidates.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@ import {
   sessionSearchCandidateAdmission,
   sessionSearchPathAdmission
 } from './session-search-candidate-admission'
-import { readSessionSearchCandidateRows } from './session-search-candidate-rows'
+import {
+  readSessionSearchCandidateRows,
+  consumeSessionSearchCandidatePage
+} from './session-search-candidate-rows'
 import { boundedSessionSearchPage } from './session-search-catalog-pages'
 import { putSessionSearchCandidate } from './session-search-candidate-entry'
 import {
@@ -254,14 +257,7 @@ export class SessionSearchCatalogCandidates {
     return { rows, references }
   }
   consumedPage(receipts: { key: string; revision: number }[]): void {
-    if (!receipts.length) {
-      return
-    }
-    const result = this.db
-      .prepare(`UPDATE temp.search_candidates SET changed=0
-      WHERE changed=1 AND (key,revision) IN (SELECT json_extract(value,'$[0]'),json_extract(value,'$[1]') FROM json_each(?))`)
-      .run(JSON.stringify(receipts.map((row) => [row.key, row.revision])))
-    this.pending -= Number(result.changes)
+    this.pending -= consumeSessionSearchCandidatePage(this.db, receipts)
   }
   rowChanged(path: string): void {
     this.publications.rowChanged(path)